Category: NATIONAL

By: Barnali Bose, Editor-ICN Group The internet often entraps innocent children in such pornographic virtual cycle. Parental supervision is therefore a must. KOLKATA: To quote the Italian poet, Dante Alighieri, “The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their silence in times of moral crisis.” A subject that I was hesitant to write on was Child Abuse. I felt I would not be able to handle a delicate topic as this one. However in the recent times, I find such incidents occuring and recurring yet again. It’s not…

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Rahul’s alliance strategy will be tested in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, states which hold elections this year before the Lok Sabha test in 2019. NEW DELHI: The extended Congress Working Committee on July 22 authorised Congress president Rahul Gandhi to forge an alliance with like-minded parties for the 2019 Lok Sabha election to take on the BJP. The decision was taken at a meeting of the newly-constituted CWC, Pradesh Congress Committee chiefs and Congress Legislature Party members from various States.The CWC that was constituted last week by Mr. Gandhi…

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NEW DELHI: US authorities on Friday announced the sentencing of 21 members of a “telefraud scam” run out of India-based call centres that defrauded Americans and legal immigrants of millions by threatening them with arrest, deportation, imprisonment and fines for unpaid dues to the government. All the 21 sentenced are either Indians or naturalised Americans of Indian descent, and some of them have consented to be deported back to India after the completion of their jail terms, up to 20 years for some. All of them were linked to call…

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By: Barnali Bose, Editor-ICN Group KOLKATA: On March 17,2017, I received an email from Sushmita Dev,a Lok Sabha MP asking for support to join a campaign of hers via change.org. The petitioner requested me to sign the petition asking the Union Finance Minister to make sanitary napkins GST free.The move would specially benefit  the lesser privileged who faced stigma centred around menstruation by making a product of basic necessity accessible to them. In the email, she categorically stated that imposing taxes on sanitary napkins was synonymous with “ taxing women…

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Mumbai : Anupam Kher has been recently invited by the Inspector General and all ranks of the Central Industrial Security Force – Western Sector to deliver a motivational talk on the occasion of CISF (Central Industrial Security Force) completing 50 golden years. The recipient of Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan and Chairman of FTII who has recently wrapped up shooting for his highly anticipated political drama, The Accidental Prime Minister, was quite humbled to be part of the high-profile event scheduled at Chembur (Mumbai) today (19th July) and interacted with…

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By: Rakesh Lohumi, Sr. Editor-ICN Group SHIMLA: Hydropower plants and road projects are taking a heavy toll of the ever depleting forest reserves in Himachal Pradesh which is having the lowest green cover among the Himalayan hill states. Being a renewable source of energy hydropower projects are largely considered to be environment friendly but they account for bulk of the forest land diverted for non-forestry use. In fact, hydropower plants and road projects have together gobbled up 80 percent of the 12005 hectare of forests diverted since the enforcement of Forest…

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